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(Auction)New Auction Record for Scrimshaw
This 8" long scrimshawed tooth by the so-called "Pagoda Artist" or "Albatross Artist" sold for $324,000 to a Michigan collector sitting in the audience. The underbidder was on the phone. The price establishes a new auction record for scrimshaw, breaking the $303,000 paid for the same tooth in 2005. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Auction Houses Must Reveal Consignor's Name to Buyer
by David HewettThe opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department on September 19 was explicit and to the point: "While it may be true that auction houses commonly withhold the names of consignors..., this Court is governed not by the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting Sale Aids Disabled Jockeys
From left: Terri Moyers, Nedra Matteucci, and Jim Parks of the accounting and consulting firm CBIZ MHM LLC, who conducted the drawing. Chrystina Geagan photo.Nedra Matteucci Galleries, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Sense of Place
One of the rarest and most coveted objects in the antiques market today might be a venue to hold a show.It seems there has been more news than ever before about antiques shows being uprooted, relocated, and canceled. In this issue, we report that two shows-Arts of Pacific Asia in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Let My People Recline
$40,625.An Egyptian Revival bone-inlaid mahogany chaise longue, almost identical to one used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, estimated at $1500/2500, sold for $40,625 at Doyle New York's Belle Epoque sale in New York City on September 17. The panels of the chaise longue are decorated with seated pharaonic ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mid-Atlantic Merger: Quinn's and Ken Farmer Team Up and Acquire Harlowe-Powell
Ken Farmer (left) and Paul Quinn.Quinn's Auction Galleries of Falls Church, Virginia, is aligning with Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals of Radford, Virginia, to purchase the Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The new firm officially launched on October 1. When first making the announcement, they referred to the new ... (Read More)
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(Show)New and Improved Los Angeles Antiques Show
A first-time show exhibitor, Jon Eric Riis of Atlanta, Georgia, is a tapestry artist whose work is in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. With this opulent jacket-those are hundreds of pearls-using traditional and contemporary imagery, he crafted a stunning visual, priced ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show in Saratoga Springs Sparkles
Tramp art specialist Clifford Wallach of Manalapan, New Jersey, featured a tramp art desk, $7500; a large mirror, $2400; a small mirror, $550; a lighthouse, $1295; and a gilded dressing table with a regal stand, $5800.Charles Washburne Antiques, Solebury, Pennsylvania, had two large Minton majolica shells for $7885; two round ... (Read More)
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(Show)Optimism Reigns at the Shenandoah Antiques Expo
One thing you can always find at Fishersville is a piece of "project" furniture. This walnut blanket chest pushes the boundaries of just how much of a project one may be willing to undertake. It was in the booth of Larry and Linda Fox. The Foxes are from Valencia, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Kip and Judith Coburn, Wood Bull Antiques, Milford, New York
Kip and Judith Coburn. That's their dog Bo'sun (as in "boatswain") with his back to the camera in the foreground.Entrance to Wood Bull Antiques.Nicely polished cast-iron stove, $650; stenciled and rosewood-grained rocker, $235.A small portion of the chair inventory.The "drafting" room is filled with architectural antiques and frames. The calipers ... (Read More)
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